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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Catawba County

Physical Activity

Now, thinking about the moderate physical activities you do when you are not working in a usual week,
do you do moderate activities for at least 10 minutes at a time such as
brisk walking, bicycling,vacuuming, gardening, or anything else that cause s small increases in breathing or heart rate?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 12,752 10,603 84.8 83.6-85.9 2,149 15.2 14.1-16.4
-Catawba County 351 288 80.7 71.9-87.2 63 19.3 12.8-28.1
GENDER
Male 130 105 75.5 58.6-87.0 25 24.5 13.0-41.4
Female 221 183 85.2 78.8-89.9 38 14.8 10.1-21.2
RACE
White 320 266 85.9 80.6-89.9 54 14.1 10.1-19.4
Other 27 18 50.3 23.8-76.7 9 49.7 23.3-76.2
AGE
18-44 76 66 76.7 56.5-89.2 10 23.3 10.8-43.5
45+ 272 219 83.3 78.1-87.4 53 16.7 12.6-21.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 169 129 71.4 56.4-82.7 40 28.6 17.3-43.6
Some College + 182 159 89.5 83.3-93.6 23 10.5 6.4-16.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 188 151 73.4 58.2-84.5 37 26.6 15.5-41.8
$50,000+ 119 106 91.5 84.4-95.5 13 8.5 4.5-15.6

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*If a respondent reported less than 10 mins activity/week for the next phy. activity quest., that respondent was counted in NO category

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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